Microsoft Wants You to Forget Windows 8
 

People and corporations alike don't care to be reminded about their failures and Microsoft is no exception. It's a fact that Windows 8 is bound to follow the likes of Windows ME and Vista into the forgotten annuls of history if Microsoft has anything to do with it. Rather than belabor Windows 8, which is dead to Microsoft, it will beat the drum on the next name for its Windows client.

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